Embedded Risk Manager (Associate Director) - Reuben Cooley, Inc.
Coppell, TX 75019
About the Job
Position Summary
The Principal Embedded Risk Manager (ERM) specializes in serving as a central point of contact and liaison aligned with IT that drives completion of, and adherence to, risk and control commitments, obligations, and requirements for their aligned departments; and is responsible for assisting stakeholders with the identification and timely remediation of risk. They are a top-level contributor that acts independently with minimal direction. The ERM's ability to form strong relationships and communicate with a breadth and variety of management resources is critical. Attention to detail and strong time management skills are also required, along with juggling competing priorities.
Must have:
The Principal Embedded Risk Manager (ERM) specializes in serving as a central point of contact and liaison aligned with IT that drives completion of, and adherence to, risk and control commitments, obligations, and requirements for their aligned departments; and is responsible for assisting stakeholders with the identification and timely remediation of risk. They are a top-level contributor that acts independently with minimal direction. The ERM's ability to form strong relationships and communicate with a breadth and variety of management resources is critical. Attention to detail and strong time management skills are also required, along with juggling competing priorities.
Must have:
- Minimum of 6 years of Financial Services industry related experience.
- Familiarity with IT Infrastructure Mainframe, distributed, cloud, network, disaster recovery, automation, ITIL processes.
- Able to identify Audit control gaps in engineering platforms and processes.
- Convinces others by making a strong case, bringing others along to their viewpoint; builds strong, trusting relationships while being comfortable challenging ideas.
- Thinks boldly and out of the box, generates new ideas and processes, confidently pursues challenges
- Bachelor's degree required with Masters preferred or equivalent experience
- Internal Audit Department.
- Technical Risk Management.
- Operational Risk Management.
- Regulators / Regulatory Relations.
- IT Risk Community of Excellence.
- Management Control Testing.
- Issues and Actions
- TRM network and app pen test findings, FOSS findings
- Risk acceptances and policy deviations
- PDMS Policy and Procedures document reviews
- Assist with articulating issues and remediation plans, drive timely submissions to control functions
- Assist IT teams in tracking audit deliverables and facilitating management's timely response to requests
- Track audit actions against defined delivery dates and assist with development of retarget plans as necessary.
- Conduct proactive Continuous Improvement Questionnaire meetings to identify MSIs, policy deviations and risk acceptances to mitigate future control function findings
- Update Process, Risk & Control (PRC) framework proactively
- Review Key Performance Indicator (KPI) maker/checker compliance
- Work closely with management and stakeholders to accurately report status of audit and regulatory actions
- Collaborate effectively with the Risk Management Center of Excellence to drive the teams' timely response to TRM, external Audit, and regulatory requests.
- Integrate risk management into each team's continuous improvement processes, roadmaps, and strategies
- Drive/facilitate control efforts
- Provide information and feedback to the CoE and control functions as appropriate
- Influence and support the Risk mindset of IT
- Accountability: Demonstrates reliability by taking necessary actions to continuously meet required deadlines and goals.
- Global Collaboration: Applies global perspective when working within a team by being aware of own style and ensuring all relevant parties are involved in key team tasks and decisions.
- Communication: Articulates information clearly and presents information effectively and confidently when working with others.
- Influencing: Convinces others by making a strong case, bringing others along to their viewpoint; maintains strong, trusting relationships while at the same time is comfortable challenging ideas.
- Innovation and Creativity: Thinks boldly and out of the box, generates new ideas and processes, and confidently pursues challenges as new avenues of opportunity.
Source : Reuben Cooley, Inc.
